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Cheers, the app and social network built around giving users the chance to celebrate the good things in their lives, has raised a $2.5 million Series A funding round led by MindFund and including Charles River Ventures, Trinity Ventures, AngelList founder Naval Ravikant and others. The startup launched just over...

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Design-focused e-commerce site Fab.com has been having a good year (and a half), and thanks to the massive 100-plus page slideshow the company has now shared, it has the figures to prove it. According to Fab’s latest, the site reached 10 million members in 2012, and sold 4.3 million products...

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Morningstar chart showing the estimated growth of Amazon Prime since the Kindle Fire launch. The $79/year Amazon Prime subscription service has experienced rapid growth since late 2011, reaching an estimated 10 million members as of the end of 2012, with the potential to reach 25 million members by 2017. These...

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Shares of Facebook will reportedly begin trading in May, and professional investors expect the stock's price to rise 12% in the first quarter, according to a survey by Maven. Despite that upbeat assessment, just 12% of professional investors surveyed by Maven said they planned to invest in Facebook, with 44%...

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Guys: Dollar Shave Club says it’s trying to save your face — and your wallet If you’ve used the Internet at any point in the last few months, then you’ve likely seen the promotional video for the company and its razors. The tag line: “Our blades are f**king great.”...

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Since he hit his fundraising target and launched App.net back in August, there have been few more vocal advocates for paid social networks and products than entrepreneur Dalton Caldwell. You and your data are not the product we’re selling to advertisers, he promised his backers and audience, as part of an...

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E-book services startup BiblioCrunch got a brand new design and new features, the company announced today in an email to its users. While its Basic Option remains free, it is also introducing subscription plans. As you may remember, BiblioCrunch relaunched last June as a marketplace that helps publishers and talent...

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Greylock Partners' David Sze has made some very good investment decisions. He wrote early checks to Facebook, Pandora and LinkedIn. But he just wrote his biggest startup check yet. Sze gave Nextdoor, a social network for neighborhoods, $15 million on behalf of Greylock, which led the startup's $21.6 million round...

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Chinese Internet firm Sina is looking to increase the number of businesses that use its Sina Weibo microblogging service, according to comments from its CEO Charles Chao made at business forum in Taiwan yesterday. In spite of impending new measures coming into place next month, which are likely to reduce active...

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Amazon is expanding the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, which allows Prime members who own a Kindle device to borrow one ebook a month for free, to the United Kingdom, Germany and France later this month. Amazon launched KOLL in the United States last November with a library of about 5,000 traditionally...

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In an announcement today, the petition site Avaaz revealed some pretty interesting figures on its growth and latest efforts around the world. In December, we reported that the site’s anti-SOPA petition managed to garner well over 1 million signatures, and as of today, it has been signed almost 3.5 million...

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Amazon may have far fewer customers signed up for its Amazon Prime membership than previously estimated by analysts. The Prime membership costs $79 annually for Amazon customers, who in return get free two-day shipping on most items sold through the retail giant. The service is attractive to customers because...

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Google is unifying all the different kinds of user accounts it has for its various products. The "home" for these accounts will now be Google+. The WSJ's Amir Efrati this is a "controversial tactic" intended to boost Google+'s membership numbers. This is silly, and it's not news. From the very beginning,...

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Google's decision to let users use their Google+ accounts to log in to other Web sites has the potential to give the company's social network a major boost. Patrick Salyer, the chief executive officer of Gigya -- a company that providers social log-in services to sites around the Web --...

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When LearnVest launched in 2009, it was billed as a Mint.com for women. But, three years later, it’s not just women who use the site and it’s not just Mint that it’s angling to disrupt. On top of a free money management platform, and articles, courses and other finance-related resources,...